The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-03-29
MISCELLANEOUS.
The sultsn Of TURKEY has ~ wives

The sultan or turkey nas ~ wives.
II is asserted that Mr. Blaine win 20 TO
Europe in May.
senator Mahone's SUCCESSOR, John W. Dan
iels, is said 20 resemble Edwin Booth in
feature
II Is said that Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes
plays with a big gray top Of the humming
variety
Two members Of the British house Of par
lament have lost their eyesight-Dr. Rob
ertson. The Brighton member, and Mr.. Mac
donald. an Irish representative.
John J. Sullivan SAYS that all America Is
behind him II this be true, then all Amer
ica" never had q more opportune moment for
kicking in all IFS life
George H. Corlss the great engine builder,
was az 80 proprietor Of general store IN
New Yorl. town His first attempt at inven'
tion-a machine for sewing shoes-was made
al that time, but was not q success.
Rev. Phillips Brooks says that when
mother brings him a baby 10 admire he takes
the baby. turns it over holds il up and says:
Snow. that is n baby" He thus avoids tell
ing any white lies regarding tho baby's
merit,
Pope leo XIII has a famous collection
Of laccs, which has lately received an i'm
portaut addition The design is copied from
the Rezz0uico SET made for Clement XIII
by the Venetian nuns Tho cost Of reproduc-
ing IL was s2loa yard.
I'm The house Of r. 4. Edison, et Llewelyn
Park i- q peculiar memeutoof Beechcr. The
inventor 40 one time requested the preacher
- sp.aka few sentences into The photograph,
so that Ellison is now the only man who can
revive tine -ileurel voice of the dead preacher.
Sir Charles Dixie has inherited a fortune
from relative who bore name euph0ni-
ou,v pronounced Sno0ks but spelled Sew
en0oks The same pcculiarties of pronuncia-
ton prevail largely iu the south where, as in
England Beauchamp. is "Beacham. and Tall
i0fpro is "Toliver"
Ex-senator Bruce, now in New York, has
bean leruring during the past winter and
is now Engaged n some literary work touch
ing upon the eolorel people III, treatment
at the New York hotels is precisely The same
accorded 10 white guests
The Old family Bible that belonged 20
"Narv. tha mother of Washington, is still in
existence. and is kept iu O branch Of the
Washington family m Virginia. To contains
On. family register recording the birth II
George Washington, Feb -, 1892 The
binding has cover Of cloth woven by the
hand Of his mother
When Lieutenant Emory. who figured so
prominently m the Greedy relief expedition,
was building his house ON Connecticut ave-
nue.. Washington. bee noticed the lion and the
unicorn over the port corhere over the Brit
i,h ministers house across the way aud had
"a tomahawk put over The port cochere OF his
own house Minister Thornton used to CON
slider tia good joke
Abraham Lincoln was given a purse OF
500 by the Wing, Of his district 10 pay his
personal expenses when he ran for congress.
After the election was over De handed back
Sl9oo5 II did not need 30. Doc said II made
tne canvass ON my own horse. my entertain
mont. being at the houses NJ friends. cost me
nothing. and my only outlay was seventy
five cents for "a barrel of cider which some
farm hand. insisted should treat them Co.,